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After a few years around Gartner, Deloitte, and Accenture I have learned that consulting reports are usually PR thinly disguised as analysis.

by s_q_b 10y ago

AtheistOfFail 10y ago
There's plenty of things in this industry that are PR disguised as analysis. Look at security breakdowns of security flaws from outside firms that end with 'you don't want to get fucked by this, buy our services'
pj_mukh 10y ago
Mmm hmm[1]. Though this article is decidedly bearish on VR. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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jordache 10y ago
You oughta extract some semblance of narrative from all the work put into powerpoint slides for clients
lowglow 10y ago
If it's free, it's selling you something.
- simonh 10y ago
  But if what it's selling you is a good impression of the depth and quality of the author's analysis, that's not necessarily a bad thing. I've not read it in detail, so I can't give any view on that.
- amelius 10y ago
  They're probably trying to sell a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Blank_Blank 10y ago
This is ofter quite true. However have you read this thing? It's a pretty good balanced analysis. Also I think they anonymise vendor names to avoid promoting one vendor over the other
tooFastFuckYou 10y ago
I didn't find this report to be cheerleading at all. It called out several deficiencies and limitations. This VR hype is ridiculous. People have been bitching about having to wear cheap, lightweight glasses to see high-resolution 3-D for years. So now all of a sudden they're going to strap on bulky, heavy, expensive, low-resolution headsets? And aside from games, which can render their universe on the fly, what will sustain this? The gargantuan hassle to shoot a so-called VR film makes it simply impractical. The studios aren't even shooting REAL 3-D most of the time; they're churning out fake, post-processed crap. Now they're going to fund the logistics of shooting in the round? And all of that to create footage that 99 percent of the people won't see, because they're not craning their necks around for two hours. Other than games, porn is about the only compelling VR application.

After a few years around Gartner, Deloitte, and Accenture I have learned that consulting reports are usually PR thinly disguised as analysis.

by s_q_b 10y ago

After a few years around Gartner, Deloitte, and Accenture I have learned that consulting reports are usually PR thinly disguised as analysis.

AtheistOfFail 10y ago

There's plenty of things in this industry that are PR disguised as analysis. Look at security breakdowns of security flaws from outside firms that end with 'you don't want to get fucked by this, buy our services'

pj_mukh 10y ago

Mmm hmm[1]. Though this article is decidedly bearish on VR. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

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jordache 10y ago

You oughta extract some semblance of narrative from all the work put into powerpoint slides for clients

lowglow 10y ago

If it's free, it's selling you something.

simonh 10y ago
But if what it's selling you is a good impression of the depth and quality of the author's analysis, that's not necessarily a bad thing. I've not read it in detail, so I can't give any view on that.
amelius 10y ago
They're probably trying to sell a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Blank_Blank 10y ago

This is ofter quite true. However have you read this thing? It's a pretty good balanced analysis. Also I think they anonymise vendor names to avoid promoting one vendor over the other

tooFastFuckYou 10y ago

I didn't find this report to be cheerleading at all. It called out several deficiencies and limitations. This VR hype is ridiculous. People have been bitching about having to wear cheap, lightweight glasses to see high-resolution 3-D for years. So now all of a sudden they're going to strap on bulky, heavy, expensive, low-resolution headsets? And aside from games, which can render their universe on the fly, what will sustain this? The gargantuan hassle to shoot a so-called VR film makes it simply impractical. The studios aren't even shooting REAL 3-D most of the time; they're churning out fake, post-processed crap. Now they're going to fund the logistics of shooting in the round? And all of that to create footage that 99 percent of the people won't see, because they're not craning their necks around for two hours. Other than games, porn is about the only compelling VR application.